Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2019
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2038
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A great Aussie classic blend meets a Goldilocks kind of vintage – not too hot, not too cold – and the result is one mighty delicious wine. Bounces in ripe fruit highlighting the beauty of both grapes in black plum, black berries, cherry, violets, oregano, baking spices and graphite. To taste it’s smooth, fine-edged and, typical to past vintages, it remains medium bodied, floral, warm and super inviting. Oak remains a quiet layer that binds, a masterclass in persuasive support for some superlative fruit. The two grapes blend and bind seamlessly, no great division of labour here to be seen. Tannins are relatively supple and have a role in providing structure while bending to the power of the fruit. Simply irresistible.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
